Such a damaging idea was naturally thought up by Zhu Youzhen. He asked Cao Wenzhao to find a more trusted person to test the generals of each guard one by one, if they cooperated honestly, forget it, and if they didn't cooperate, they would be killed.

If it weren't for the fear of chaos, few of these officers in the guard post would have survived.

Sure enough, this temptation really hit the muzzle of the gun.

That's what I said.

In addition to the sun, there is also the human heart.

These officers were really not happy about the abolition of the guards.

But now that His Majesty has made a decision, there is definitely no reason to take it back.

Although the guard house has been abolished, it can no longer be the owner. But there is hope that the official position will be kept, and besides, it seems that His Majesty has no intention of pursuing past crimes.

The most important thing is that they really have no capital to rebel.

Rebellion, rebellion.

Where can the mutiny go? A slave who was beaten like a dog? Or is it an honest insert who raises sheep for Daming?

It's even more impossible to rebel, just rely on these stinky fish and rotten shrimp under your subordinates to make a fart!

The foundation saved over the years is enough to spend, so you have to stalk your neck and let people cut it, stupid?

Don't really say it, there are two fools in Datong.

Ma Yongqi of Datong Right Guard and Guo Shenghong of Anton Zhongtun Guard.

When the heads of the two were displayed among the various guards, everyone was more determined in their hearts.

People must learn to bow their heads, otherwise they will turn around.

What could be more important than being alive?

After the two were cut down, Datong Town completely lost its resistance to reform.

"Your Majesty said that after the dismantling of the guard, if you are not willing to continue to serve in the army, you will be discharged, and the fields of the guard will be distributed to you according to the head. From now on, you will plant your own fields! Those who are willing to continue to serve the country as soldiers will receive a fortune of one or two or five dollars of silver a month, plus half a stone of rice! Your Majesty ordered the abolition of the guards, not to take away your jobs. It's about making your lives better! Don't worry about not being able to pay for being a soldier, Your Majesty is gracious, as long as you are willing to join the army, you will advance half a year's salary first! From now on, you only need to plant your own land, and there will be no guards and no governors. Your Majesty asked me to tell you, so that you can live a good life! ”

Cao Wenzhao stood on the high platform and loudly conveyed the policy of the reform of the guard, and the three sentences did not leave the great majesty. These people are still standing submissively, but if you look closely, you will see that there is a light in their eyes.

It's called hope.

Cao Wenzhao personally went to the health centers to publicize the reform policy, and the acres of land were divided and boxes of silver were distributed.

The number of soldiers in Datong Town inevitably decreased, and only 8,000 remained, but the rest were all young and strong people between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five, and as long as they were trained properly, they would soon be able to fight effectively.

The first day of February

After solving the problem of Datong, Lu Xiangsheng came to Xuanhua with the Tianxiong Army.

Xuanfu Town has always been a battleground for soldiers, and its strategic position is very important, "the Beijing Division in Nanping, the rear control of the desert, the danger of the mediocre on the left, and the solidity in the clouds on the right."

"The Sword Comes"

It is worth mentioning that the famous "Civil Engineering Change" in the history of the Ming Dynasty took place here, and Yingzong buried hundreds of thousands of elites in World War I. After returning from school, he not only launched a multi-gate change to regain the throne, but also killed Yu Qian, who turned the tide and cleaned up the mess for him.

However, when Lu Xiang ascended to this point, the situation was already very different, there was a docile sweat outside the pass, and the soldiers of the guards in Xuanfu Town were still living a good life. Hou Shilu, the chief soldier of Xuanfu, had already learned about what happened in Datong, and immediately patted his chest and promised to cooperate with Lu Xiangsheng's work. The next day, he personally went to the guards to publicize the reform, and the commanders of the guards, who were already frightened birds, naturally did not dare to show a trace of dissatisfaction, lest they be cut off by King Lu Yan for a reason.

February 15

When the Xuanfu Guard was reorganized, Lu Xiangsheng issued an even more surprising order.

The senior generals of Xuanfu and Datong were exchanged.

This order completely cut off the idea that some people would continue to be powerful in the army by relying on their previous prestige.

Naturally, these things were done by Lu Xiangsheng and Zhu Youzhen in a discussion. After Xuanda is stabilized, all the other nine border guards will be abolished. When he first succeeded to the throne, the arrears of the nine sides in the seventh year of the Apocalypse alone were more than one million taels of silver, and if he hadn't taken out the silver from the inner treasury in time to make up for it, Bi Ziyan's unlucky brother would have died of hunger strike.

Based on the annual salary of twenty-four taels of silver per person, one hundred thousand soldiers are only two million taels of silver, and they are soldiers who can fight.

Seeing that Xuanda's side was slowly settling down, Zhu Youzhen set his eyes on his old opponent Huang Taiji again.

Although there were successive victories against Jiannu, they were all passive defensive counterattacks. This time he intends to take the initiative.

Now that the beginning of spring has passed, the climate is warming, and it is a good time to fight.

This time, he planned to send Zu Dashou, Man Gui, and Zhao Shujiao to lead troops to attack Liaoyang and Shenyang and recover the entire Liaodong. At present, there are about 80,000 or 90,000 soldiers and horses in Guanningjin and Jin, and it should be no problem to transfer 50,000 or 60,000 to fight Huangtaiji.

He first ordered the three of them to prepare, and then began to recruit the people to deliver food.

The sixth day of the first month of March

Stinged

20,000 people set off with 300,000 stones of grain and grass. Considering the long way to Shenyang, Zhu Youzhen made sufficient preparations. This grain and grass alone is enough for 50,000 soldiers and horses to eat and chew for half a year.

It was escorted by 3,000 battalions and 2,000 cavalry, plus 200 demolition squads and 1,000 explosives packs with combat experience on the Korean battlefield.

Out of the capital, the procession meandered northeast.

According to the planned route, they had to go to Huangsongyu in Jizhen Town first, and then take the cement road until they reached Shanhaiguan.

As soon as the team set off, Zhu Youzhen received another piece of bad news:

On 22 February, thousands of Fujian rebels attacked Ruijin County from Changlaikeng.

Zhu Youzhen ordered Zheng Zhilong to be promoted to the commander-in-chief of Fujian to assist Xiong Wencan in suppressing the rebels. After Zheng Zhilong was promoted, he didn't sleep all night. What does this mean? It shows that Your Majesty has completely trusted me! It shows that the identity of the student's parents has played a role!

So he happily took the soldiers and horses to Xiong Wencan to discuss how to suppress the rebel army.

On 26 March, the grain convoy arrived at Shanhaiguan after 20 days of bumpy journey.

Zhao Shujiao has ordered 10,000 soldiers and horses to wait for many days, including 5,000 cavalry and 5,000 infantry. The Jingying cavalry mission was completed and went back. Zhao led the team to the northeast for another 200 miles to Ningyuan, where he made peace with Mangui's 20,000 soldiers and horses, and continued to move forward to Jinzhou to meet with Zu Dashou's 15,000 soldiers and horses.

When they saw Zu Dashou's fifteen thousand soldiers, Zhao Shujiao and Man Gui frowned at the same time. They all knew that Zu Dashou's troops should be the largest among the three, why didn't they have more troops than Man Gui?

The three of them were once subordinate to Yuan Chonghuan, plus Zu Dashou's deputy general He Kegang, known as the four generals of Guanning.

"Why does Chief Zu only bring these soldiers?" Man Gui, who had an upright temperament, asked directly at Zu Dashou.

"The defense of Jinzhou is a heavy task, and there are not many troops in our city. So I can only draw so much, besides, isn't there anything less than me? After that, Zu Dashou glanced at Zhao Shujiao.

This glance directly provoked Zhao Shujiao.

"What do you mean?"

"It's not interesting, say that I have few troops, but I'm not the least!"

Zu Dashou raised his face and said to himself, I am the commander-in-chief of His Majesty's order this time, what's wrong with fewer soldiers?

He Kegang saw that the situation was not right, and hurriedly rushed forward to be the peacemaker.

"Okay, okay, don't make any noise. Huang Taiji's troops are not much, 45,000, which is enough. ”

"Hopefully."

Seeing this, Zhao Shujiao didn't speak again. After negotiating the route of the march, tens of thousands of soldiers continued northward.

Since the defeat in his own year, Huang Taiji has been completely hurt, and Mangui and Zu Dashou have killed a lot of Jiannu in Liaodong. Seeing that he was powerless to block, Huang Taiji simply shrunk the front line back and focused on defending the Liaoshen line.

Along the way, the troops marched without encountering any resistance, not even a man, to be exact.

Liaodong, which was densely populated in the past, has no rooster crow for thousands of miles at this time. The fields where crops were originally planted were full of weeds.

All the guards, all the forts, and all the posts are deserted, and there are broken walls and ruins everywhere.

This is what the so-called majestic Nurhachi did.

Zhu Kezhen in the team remembered what His Majesty had said:

Those who know how to be violent are strong, and those who know how to restrain violence are strong.

But seeing such a scene, he didn't want to restrain himself, he just wanted to rush into Shenyang City and kill those dog Tartars cleanly!

Because His Majesty also said a sentence:

This world is unreasonable, unless your fist is big enough and your means are more ruthless!